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Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy was questioned about the delay in new work permit policies in the Senate yesterday. The initiatives were expected to come into effect this week but Mr Fahy announced last week that there had been set back due to a “...

Regulations to protect the donating public and Bermuda’s charities are set to come into effect before the end of the month, the Senate was told yesterday. Senator Michael Fahy, Minister for Home Affairs, said the regulations were being implemented as...

New legislation to allow for the establishment of casinos in Bermuda for the first time has been unveiled. The 118-page Casino Gaming Act 2014 was tabled in the House of Assembly by Shawn Crockwell, the Minister of Tourism. The new act makes provisio...

Political activist Jonathan Starling has proposed amendments to the Referendum Act to help ensure neutral referendum questions. The draft amendments, which Mr Starling said are based on UK legislation, would task the Parliamentary Registrar with cons...

Opposition Senator Diallo Rabain has retracted a claim made in the Upper House that a top executive for developers Desarrollos Hotelco Group had been imprisoned for fraud. The Venezuelan company is currently in negotiations with Government to develop...

A work permit policy that Government said would create jobs — and that the Opposition has criticised as hurting Bermudian workers — has been delayed, according to Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy. Speaking during the Senate’s motion to adjourn, the...

Alleged comments by Opposition Leader Marc Bean again became a focus of attention at the House of Assembly on Friday, with the OBA’s Patricia Gordon-Pamplin claiming Mr Bean boasted about disrespecting former OBA Senator Toni Daniels. Speaking during...

Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell blasted Senator Diallo Rabain for accusations he made in a ZBM report that a director for the developers of Club Med had been convicted and jailed. Speaking in Parliament, Mr Crockwell branded the claim against the D...

Michael Dunkley, Bermuda’s Premier, took aim at the Opposition Leader over “irrational” comments made during a radio interview last week after the Reply to the Throne Speech. Mr Dunkley said that, during the interview on HOTT 107, Marc Bean made a se...

Both political parties have come together in support of a committee to investigate how the Island should deal with sex offenders. The motion, moved during Friday’s session of Parliament by the PLP’s Zane DeSilva and amended by OBA backbencher Mark Pe...